Each year, Year 6 teachers are requested to transfer a teacher assessment level for ICT.
Here, Julie Leigh, Co-ordinating Adviser for ICT, shares with us some partnership headline figures…

Each summer Year 6 teachers are expected to transfer a teacher assessment level for ICT. This year the results below are based on returns for over 6,335 pupils which represents almost every primary school.

Congratulations to all those teachers who fulfilled their ICT Assessment responsibility this year.  Only two primary schools failed to return their assessments and, as all statisticians know, the larger the sample the more reliable the data.

Last year there was an apparent 2.8% drop in the number of children achieving Level 4+. This year we have improved on 2003 figures by 1.23% and on 2004 by 4.07%. I have included, for your information, the 2003 and 2004 figures first published in Ox-on-line in 2004, by way of a comparison.

As you will see from the table there is considerable variation in these assessments with results ranging from 55%  of pupils at Level 4 and above to 96% of pupils achieving Level 4 or above.

The Secondary Consultants have ensured that Heads of ICT have received pupils’ Year 6 Teacher Assessment levels by providing each secondary school ICT department with a CD with the ICT data and Fischer Family Trust predicted targets for ICT GCSE based on their English, Maths and Science KS2 SATS results. This data has been used as a starting point when setting ICT targets within the department.

Liaison with feeder primary schools is paramount. It is important for secondary schools to understand why pupils with Level 3 are in need of intervention programmes. Have they received the same entitlement as the child who has achieved Level 5? Is the Level 5 child an average ability child who has received his/her full entitlement in the primary school with a gifted teacher or is he/she a gifted pupil or is it both?

Baseline Assessment

More than half of Oxfordshire primary schools also completed a summary return for pupils in Year 2, 4 and 6. (For simplicity’s sake Year 6 data only has been illustrated below.)   The ICT Team have analysed the results since 2001 and we use the analysis to inform our work, including the production of resources to support specific areas of the ICT National Curriculum.

This year the data suggests that in the drive to embed effective use of ICT across the curriculum some schools may not now be delivering the full ICT Curriculum. We have seen significant drops in the following areas:

·         Finding things out - Handling information

Ø      48%   - sort records in a datafile (55% in 2003)

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